Works & Process
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Works & Process at the Guggenheim is a performing-arts series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
in New York City. Works & Process informs artistic creation through conversation and performance, and is presented in the Guggenheim’s Frank Lloyd Wright
–designed Peter B. Lewis Theater.
After over 300 productions, Works & Process is now recognized as a pioneer in creating programs that provide access to leading performing artists, writers, choreographers, composers, scientists, and directors. Programs continue to offer both discussion and performance. Programs are often sold out, and following each event, a reception with the artists takes place in the museum's rotunda.
From the museum's inception, Frank Lloyd Wright
recognized the importance of making performance an integral part of the museum's dedication to the performing arts. Mary Sharp Cronson, Works & Process founder, offered to create a series when the museum was no longer able to do so. Mrs. Cronson would go on to invite leaders in the worlds of art and science to talk about their work and to showcase their creative process.
Described by the New York Times
as "a popular series devoted to shedding light on the creative process" by the Village Voice
as "revelatory", by the New Yorker
as "exceptional", and by New York Magazine
as "illuminating".
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a well-known museum located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States. It is the permanent home to a renowned collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern, and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions...
in New York City. Works & Process informs artistic creation through conversation and performance, and is presented in the Guggenheim’s Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 500 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture...
–designed Peter B. Lewis Theater.
After over 300 productions, Works & Process is now recognized as a pioneer in creating programs that provide access to leading performing artists, writers, choreographers, composers, scientists, and directors. Programs continue to offer both discussion and performance. Programs are often sold out, and following each event, a reception with the artists takes place in the museum's rotunda.
From the museum's inception, Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 500 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture...
recognized the importance of making performance an integral part of the museum's dedication to the performing arts. Mary Sharp Cronson, Works & Process founder, offered to create a series when the museum was no longer able to do so. Mrs. Cronson would go on to invite leaders in the worlds of art and science to talk about their work and to showcase their creative process.
Described by the New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
as "a popular series devoted to shedding light on the creative process" by the Village Voice
The Village Voice
The Village Voice is a free weekly newspaper and news and features website in New York City that features investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts and music coverage, and events listings for New York City...
as "revelatory", by the New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
as "exceptional", and by New York Magazine
New York (magazine)
New York is a weekly magazine principally concerned with the life, culture, politics, and style of New York City. Founded by Milton Glaser and Clay Felker in 1968 as a competitor to The New Yorker, it was brasher and less polite than that magazine, and established itself as a cradle of New...
as "illuminating".